Character talks in shorthand. Often avoids "being" verbs or sentence subjects. Often due to keeping journal. Makes character more distinctive/memorable. Annoying to some. Prone to Punctuated! For! Emphasis!.

Rorschach from Watchmen is always like this when talking, but his journal and internal monologue switches between this and outbreaks of fluency. Still skips articles and pronouns in journal.

"Stood in firelight sweltering. Blood spreading on chest like map of violent new continent."

The Surgeon General from Give Me Liberty talks in exactly the same way as Rorschach.

The "That Yellow Bastard" yarn of Sin City starts with Hartigan's introduction: "One hour to go. Last day on the job. Not my idea. Doctor's orders. Heart condition. Angina, he calls it."

Surprisingly to modern audiences, Hulk originally talked like this prior to the rising popularity of the Savage Hulk personality, speaking perfectly legible English but very gruffly. In most of his more intelligent personas, particularily the Green Scar, he often speaks like this.

Superman would sometimes do this when severely injured or exposed to Kryptonite.

Mac in The Dresden Files hoards words. he almost never speaks in complete sentences, usually limiting his communication to single words or phrases. In Changes, when Harry explains that his daughter has been kidnapped, the event is so shocking that Mac actually speaks an entire paragraph.

Ulath in the Sparhawk series. Often will sum up a complex idea with one word and let others figure it out.

Mannie, narrator of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, talks like this, skipping short pronouns (such as "it") and articles (such as "the") when not strictly necessary to clarity. Makes him sound vaguely Russian, and is not common in Luna, but experience as computer programmer has gotten him into habit of dropping extraneous 'null terms', as he sees them, from vocabulary.

There's a hilarious scene in the episode where Buffy gains mind-reading powers. Oz's internal dialogue is a long monologue on the philosophical implications of Buffy being able to read their thoughts. His only spoken dialogue is "Huh."

Giles: How did the hunt go last night, Buffy? Buffy: No go. Giles: Uh, 'no', 'no' you didn't go, or you were unsuccessful? Buffy: No Gorches. Xander: Apparently Buffy has decided the problem with the English language is all those pesky words. You... Angel... big... smoochies? Buffy: Shut... up.

On Gilmore Girls, Jess was fond of speaking this way largely because he can't stand the overly cheerful atmosphere of Stars Hollow and to deliberately annoy the adults. He's only seen speaking more eloquently when he's speaking to Rory or annoying Dean.

Final Fantasy VIII: In the original Japanese script, Fujin's dialogue boxes only contain single Kanji symbols. The English translation copes with this by having her speak IN ALL CAPITALS, and in sentences one or two words in length. In both cases she drops the shtick at the end of the game when she pleads Seifer to turn back and abandon his insane crusade.

Big Macintosh from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic usually doesn't say much besides "Eeyup" and "Nope". Exceptions are when he's very emotional: in "Applebuck Season", when he tries to talk his sister Applejack out of trying to bring in the apple harvest alone; "Hearts and Hooves Day", when he indulges in exchanging cutesy pet-names with Cheerilee while under the influence of a love potion; and "Ponyville Confidential", when he chastises the Cutie Mark Crusaders for spreading ugly rumors with their column in the school newspaper. In the latter Applejack exhibits the opposite to her brother: she talks normally by default and terse when she's upset.

Former Russian finance minister turned newspaper columnist A. Lifshits is known (in Russia) for his frequent use of this in speeches and articles. It looks pretty much like this:

"Russia's economy is bad. Really. Very bad. It's a pity. Because of communists. Soviet apparatchiks. Still many of them. Too many. That's a shame."

Many accounts of messages sent by military commanders engaged in combat, sometimes due to needing to keep it brief so they could focus on the fighting, and sometimes because the nature of how the messages were sent (telegraph, flag signals, etc.) tended to favor brief messages. Often comes across as Casual Danger Dialogue; "Under fire. Request backup".

Succinct, to be sure, but not as fragmentary as it appears in English: Latin tends to not use pronouns to denote subjects.

Caesar overall might still count, though; his style of writing in his military commentaries, at least, was famously straightforward to the point, at times, of litotes, which goes some way to explain the texts' enduring popularity as fairly basic-level reading material in the instruction of Latin today.

American President Calvin Coolidge was known as "Silent Cal" among Washington society due to his taciturnity. A possibly apocryphal story has it that Dorothy Parker, seated next to him at a dinner, said to him, "Mr. President, I've made a bet against a fellow who said it was impossible to get more than two words out of you." Coolidge's response: "You lose."

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